So, old white folks showin they ass on Facebook about Ali. This one dude shared a pic talking about how Rocky Marciano was better than Ali. So I tagged a friend and we trolled the hell out of his comment section by going full Coming to America.
Y'all know what I mean
Me: "There we go! THERE WE GO!! Every time we talk about boxing, a white person always got to bring up Rocky Marciano. Rocky Mariano!!! Rocky Marciano!!! Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Lewis... ROCKY MARCIANO WONT SHIT!!!!
Him: He beat Joe Lewis ass.
Me: Joe Lewis was 75 years old when he fought Rocky Marciano!!!
Him: I don't know how old he was but he still got his ass whooped.
This guy has no idea what were talking about at this point. So we kept going, y'all know how the rest goes. So he notices we're trolling the fuck out of him by the time we start talking about Frank Sinatra so he deletes the post.
I'm still kinda contemplating a post on my FB about Ali. People are killing me with how all of a sudden he's seen as this hero and put on the pedestal, but when he was speaking the truth about Vietnam...he was just another one of
those? I can't stand the revisionist history and bullshit around the man's death. I kept a poster of the Liston KO above my bed, next to a poster of the 1968 Olympics fist raising medal stand literally from age 10 to when I moved out. The views of Muhammad Ali were completely revolutionary for a black athlete to have said out loud.
The same people praising him now, would have been asking for his head back then. Some even have the nerve to have done both. Nah, I can't stand with that. If he were 25 now, with the same outspoken nature, same quotables...they'd be lining him up like Floyd Mayweather and calling him out on Fox News every day. Shit is annoying.
GTA is some shit that people with no imaginations love to hold their hand through busted ass mechanics, and trite gameplay. That series barely passes to this day on its angry Scots take on American life. The shit is more insulting than it is actual satire or commentary other than how to release a product that stays broken for years, but people are too stupid NOT to buy several copies of the exact same shit down the line. Yeah, this is about what was said before the edit.
I don't know how you got this far into that diatribe, but man. Rockstar does one thing well, and that's iteration. It doesn't seem like there's any real waste going on there. They did lots of games that ended up with pieces used in GTA V. Look back at the original GTA and GTA 2, then see GTA 3. Huge iteration visually, gameplay very similar in structure. Midnight Club and Smuggler's Run...both ended up adding to the way vehicles were handled. The Table Tennis game and their subsequent iteration in visual fidelity helped GTA IV. The online in GTA IV proved that multiplayer GTA could be huge (who doesn't remember getting on with a group and whipping through fake New York?). Max Payne 3's 3rd person shooting ended up almost 1 for 1 in GTA V and that game was all the better for it.
Now if you're talking about the "satire" in the series...that has kind of run it's course. They have so much packed into every bit of GTA V that it becomes exhausting and kind of self-fellating.
Responding to a comment before the edit. And GTA needs to get its due for its short comings, and more so for the bullshit that it peddles. I'd personally like to see one honest conversation about the series. But it's not going to happen when people frame it and make wall space for it like it was an invite to Trump plaza.
Create the thread, I'm more than happy to talk about the series at length.